Long-Term Imprisonment

Policy, Science, and Corrrectional Practice

Timothy J. Flanagan

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 1995
• Print ISBN: 9780803970335, 9780803970328
• eBook ISBN: 9781452246949
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Criminology
• Index: Social Sciences

With recent sentencing law changes at the state and national level, the United States will continue to use long-term confinement more than any other nation in the world. In this authoritative yet accessible volume, scholars, correctional authorities, researchers, and prisoners examine the use of long- term incarceration as a response to crime, the effects of long- term incarceration, and the strategies used by long-term inmates to adjust to confinement. Long-Term Imprisonment explores the prison experience of both male and female inmates and discusses the correctional management challenges posed by long-term incarceration. The core of this collection, edited by Timothy Flanagan, is a set of articles first published in The Prison Journal, the official journal of the Pennsylvania Prison Society and the oldest journal in the field of corrections. These articles are complemented with research reports on the effects of long-term confinement, a comprehensive analysis of long-term inmates currently confined in American and Canadian prisons, and essays written by long-term prisoners. If you are interested in the use and operation of prisons, and in the impact of these institutions on the people confined within them, this book is for you. In addition to students studying imprisonment, the book informs correctional administrators and policymakers about the nature of long-term inmate population and the impact of long-term imprisonment. "Timothy Flanagan began studying the effects of long-term incarceration over two decades ago when he conducted one of the first major studies of prisoners serving long sentences. Since then, many changes have occurred in corrections and sentences practices that have greatly increased sentence lengths and the number of prisoners serving long sentences. The collection of the essays contained in Long-Term Imprisonment represents the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and definitive review of literature regarding the effects of long-term incarceration on prisoners. Flanagan provides readers with a variety of perspectives of long- term imprisonment by including articles written by prison researchers, corrections officials, and long-term prisoners. This book is must reading for anyone interested in life in prisons and the unique world of the long-term prisoner." --Kevin N. Wright, Binghamton University

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Part I - Perspectives on Long-Term Imprisonment
• Chapter 1 - Long-Term Incarceration: Issues of Science, Policy and Correctional Practice
• Chapter 2 - An American Portrait of Long-Term Imprisonment
• Chapter 3 - Long-Term Offenders in Canada
• Part II - Long-Term Prisoners on Long-Term Imprisonment
• Chapter 4 - The Long-Termers: Louisiana's Longest Serving Inmates and Why They've Stayed So Long
• Chapter 5 - Facing Long-Term Imprisonment
• Chapter 6 - Coping with Imprisonment: A Long-Termer's View
• Part III - The Effects of Long-Term Imprisonment
• Chapter 7 - The Controversy over the Effects of Long-Term Incarceration
• Chapter 8 - Long-Term Incarceration Impacts and Characteristics of Long-Term Offenders: An Empirical Analysis
• Chapter 9 - Reexamining the Cruel and Unusual Punishment of Prison Life
• Chapter 10 - The Unintended Effects of Long-Term Imprisonment
• Part IV - Adaptation and Survival among Long-Term Inmates
• Chapter 11 - Adaptation and Adjustment among Long-Term Prisoners
• Chapter 12 - Women Lifers: Assessing the Experience
• Chapter 13 - Long-Term Incarceration of Female Offenders: Prison Adjustment and Coping
• Chapter 14 - Behavior and Adaptation in Long-Term Prison Inmates: Descriptive Longitudinal Results
• Chapter 15 - The World of Prisoners' Wives
• Part V - Correctional Responses and the Management of Long-Term Prisoners
• Chapter 16 - The Good Old Days in the Joint
• Chapter 17 - Administrative Perspectives on Management of Long-Term Prisoners
• Chapter 18 - Management of Life Sentence Prisoners in England and Wales
• Chapter 19 - Situational and Social Approaches to the Prevention of Disorder in Long-Term Prisons
• Chapter 20 - Using Multiple Perspectives to Develop Strategies for Managing Long-Term Inmates
• Chapter 21 - Addressing the Program Needs of Long-Term Inmates
• Chapter 22 - Programming for Long-Term Inmates: A New Perspective
• Chapter 23 - Sentence Planning for Long-Term Inmates
• Afterwords
• Chapter 24 - The Long-Term Inmate as a Long-Term Problem
• Chapter 25 - Correctional Policy and the Long-Term Prisoner
• About the Editor
• About the Contributors